Not fit to stay: public health panics and South Asian exclusion

Introduction

1. "Leprosy and plague riot in their blood" : the germination of a thesis, 1906

2. Riots, plague, and the advent of executive exclusion

3. "The public health must prevail" : enforcing exclusion

4. Amoebic and social parasites, 1910-13

5. South Asians, public health, and eugenic theory

6. Franchise denied

Conclusion.